About

James Harry Morris

James Harry Morris, MTheol, PhD, FRAS is a scholar of Japanese and East Asian religious history. His work focuses on the history of Christianity in Japan, Christian-Muslim Relations in East Asia, Syriac Christianity in East Asia, and New Religious Movements. He completed his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Mario I. Aguilar at the University of St Andrews in 2018. He currently works as an Associate Professor at Waseda University and a part-time lecturer at Ibaraki University.

Morris is currently completing a project funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science entitled “Syriac Christianity, Syriac Studies and Modern Japan: An Intellectual History” and a project entitled “Kirishitan-ban in the Digital Age: A Study of the Opportunities and Limitations of Applying Digital Methods to Kirishitan-ban” funded by a DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion Graphic Culture Research Grant and a Waseda University Grant for Special Research Projects. He was a recipient of the Surveillance Studies Network Early Career Researcher Award 2018.

Morris is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, an Associate Researcher of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics at the University of St Andrews, and Editor for Northeast Asian Studies for The Digital Orientalist.

This website provides details of Morris’s publications and work. For a full CV or other enquiries please contact him via the Contact page.